Statement from Divisional Vice President, Dr. Reza Fakhari

Faithful to our progressive Franciscan tradition, we have created SFC International as a hub of everything international, staffed with a talented and diverse team, to warmly welcome international students and to serve their varied needs with creative and effective programming, initiatives, and services.

Our Comprehensive Internationalization Strategy, inaugurated in 2019, has taken St. Francis global by building and deepening numerous international linkages and partnerships across the world for study abroad (often faculty-led), international exchanges, and study at SFC through various creative models of collaboration. We are also focused on Internationalization at Home by infusing global perspectives and competencies into curriculum and co-curriculum to better prepare all students for the 21^st Century workforce and by preparing students as responsible, globally minded citizens.

SFC International has supported faculty to establish Institute for Global Engagement and Forum on Migration. It is also supporting faculty in developing a signature interdisciplinary Human Rights Program and inaugurated the SFC Human Rights Lecture Series in Spring 2021, bringing external experts (often as Human Rights Fellows) to speak on global citizenship, corporate responsibility, sustainability, extreme power and wealth inequality, and racial and social justice.

Our globally interconnected world requires a new paradigm of enriched and engaged education to develop knowledge, skills and capacities in our students to thrive as global citizens and professionals. SFC International is humbled to play its collaborative role in this important mission.

We welcome you to explore us, visit us, study with us, collaborate with us, and join us in envisioning a better global future for all.

Our Mission
 

At St. Francis College, international students are destined for success; each international student is provided with an opportunity to participate in impactful global engagement through transformational college experiences and an environment for intellectual excellence, thus developing them into leaders who will make a difference in today's globalized world.

We Realize Our Mission By

1. Increasing our international student population through strategic and multifaceted recruitment approaches in various international markets, and expanding institutional capacity to effectively meet international student needs and support them through their college journey
2. Building and promoting study and internships abroad and academic exchange programs with foreign institutions through integrated institutional strategy for education abroad and at SFC
3. Infusing global perspectives/competencies into the SFC curriculum to better prepare all students for the 21st-century workforce
4. Preparing students as responsible, globally-minded citizens through civic and global engagement co-curricular programs and activities (often led by faculty)
5. Expanding the “SFC Global” brand to effectively develop comprehensive relationships in different parts of the world, setting a standard for quality, engaged, and affordable education at the global crossroads of Brooklyn/NYC

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